BANGALORE: Giving a virtual clean chit to Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, who is facing a slew of corruption charges, BJP leader Ravishankar Prasad advised state party leaders to launch a counter campaign against the Opposition parties to dispel such notions. He addressed the press here on Thursday that the allegations made by Congress and JD(S) against Yeddyurappa were sponsored by Governor H R Bharadwaj. Charging the Centre of adopting a partisan attitude towards states ruled by the NDA, Prasad, also former Union law minister, said that several Bills passed by the non-Congress state governments are awaiting the Centre’s approval. He criticised Bharadwaj for working more as a Congress member and making efforts to destabilise the duly-elected government in the state.He advised the state BJP to take senior BJP leader L K Advani’s remark that “the image of the party and the government in Karnataka was hurt badly”, in a positive manner and work to improve its image. He accused the Congress and JD(S) of launching a propaganda against the BJP government, while exhorting partymen to counter and blunt it. Stating that there were no charges of corruption proved in any court of law against the CM, the BJP leader alleged that the cases filed against Yeddyurappa with Lokayukta were politically motivated. “Such cases were sponsored and dictated at Raj Bhavan and have no credence,” he averred. He labelled the Governor’s recommendationfor the dismissal of the BJP government as a “copy-book case” of discrimination against non-Congress- governments.However, he refused to comment on the remarks of the Lokayukta that the export and mining of iron ore are still going on. “The highest number of recommendations for issuing mining licences (47) was sent by former CM Kumaraswamy,” he said.
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